First flight 1963 as CCCP-11976 probably opb Sovjet AF. June 6th 1987 LZ-BAE Balkan. October 1st 1995 LZ-BAE Heavylift (leased from LZ), September 1st 1996 LZ-BAE returned to Balkan. November 2003 LZ-VEF Vega Air. November 2007 RDPL-34156 PMT Lao Airlines. January 2009 UP-AN216, from April opf Interisland Airways. April 21 2010 written off in a crash near the town of Mexico in the Philippines. Seen arriving rwy 24, probably carrying a horse for horsraces in the weekend.

First flight April 9th 1993, delivered new to Aer Lingus April 23rd 1993 as EI-CDT. May 13th 1995 PT-MNC Rio Sul until March 28th 1997 returned as EI-CDT. April 23rd 1998 SE-DUT Braathens Sverige AB, and it became the 1st B737-500 in the new blue BU colours of 1998. April 6th 1999 LN-TUX rr Braathens tfd. April 23rd 2001 F-GUJA Air France. April 2005 LZ-BOR. March 2009 VQ-BBO. March 26th 2013 wfu and stored in UK, later broken up. In 1997 the airline Transwede and their 4 Fokker 100s were taken over by Braathens, named Braathens Sverige, with a small Swedish flag. Seen arrivin rwy 24 from ARN

Built 1996 as F-WWFJ. June 1997 N913FJ and N900EX for Dassault Falcon Jet Corporation. Early 1998 rr N912EX, and July 1998 F-WQBL. January 5th 1999 F-HAXA. It and made an unexpected visit to Oslo this day while still wearing the N912EX registration. Scanned from a Kodak 200ISO negative film

Small titles on the nose

Norway was an early participant in NATO's pilot training programmes in North America leaving only ab-initio training and pilot selection in Norway. Initially this was performed by Cornells and Harvards, but from 1956 the Safir was used. 341 was taken on charge 18 April 1957, initially as 57-341 U-AV (U being the aircraft type code and AV the individual aircraft code), then 341. It was sold to LFK Flyhobbyklubb at Kjeller 11 March 1983 as LN-LFK and later joined Nedre Romerike Flyklubb in whose service it is seen here. Current in 2025.

Leased from Air New Zealand

line no. 23-06

Afternoon arrival on short final for Rw 23.